Questions tagged [bootstrapping]

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I am learning C++ and I've just started learning about some of Qt's capabilities to code GUI programs. I asked myself the following question:
How does C++, which previously had no syntax capable of ...

I've heard of the idea of bootstrapping a language, that is, writing a compiler/interpreter for the language in itself. I was wondering how this could be accomplished and looked around a bit, and saw ...

Is there a way to inject a late dependency to an already bootstrapped angular module? Here's what I mean:
Say that I have a site-wide angular app, defined as:
// in app.js
var App = angular.module("...

I'm trying to integrate Spring in a pretty large application with thousands of classes, and i'm experiencing huge delays starting my container because of component-scanning.
I have already narrowed ...

I am configuring Automapper in the Bootstrapper and I call the Bootstrap() in the Application_Start(), and I've been told that this is wrong because I have to modify my Bootstrapper class each time I ...

I have a project which has a C extension which requires numpy. Ideally, I'd like whoever downloads my project to just be able to run python setup.py install or use one call to pip. The problem I have ...

I tried to construct a working example of a WiX 3.6 installation script. We currently use WiX 3.5 and now we would like to begin installing the .NET 4 Client Profile framework as a pre-requisite for ...

I'm bootstrapping a programming language compiler on top of LLVM. Currently I'm mostly done writing a compiler for a subset of C which is self-compiling. When I'm finished with that, I'll bootstrap ...

Background: I have a small Python application that makes life for developers releasing software in our company a bit easier. I build an executable for Windows using py2exe. The application as well as ...

I'm trying to understand the concept of Chef clients and validators, and their relationship to the bootstrapping process.
According to this article, the chef-client will use the /etc/chef/validation....

I'm beginning with Zend Framework and I would like to understand Bootstrap file. I've learned all _init methods are executed by default but it seems confusing to me. Anyway that is not what I would ...

Will Javascript on the rapid rise and it being adapted for all sorts of things, my question is: Can Javascript be bootstrapped? More specifically, would a JS parser written in JS be fast enough to be ...

I was looking up the pypy project (Python in Python), and started pondering the issue of what is running the outer layer of python? Surely, I conjectured, it can't be as the old saying goes "turtles ...

So, I have more than one version of Java installed on the system (1.7 and 1.6). I need to use 1.6, so, being on Ubuntu, I did an update-alternatives --config java and changed it to the 1.6. Now java ...

The source tree for happy contains AttrGrammarParser.ly and Parser.ly and the source tree for alex contains Scan.x. Yet, as far as I can tell in order to compile happy, we need to transform the .ly ...

Understanding Laravel Mix
I am currently in the process of migrating one of my websites to Laravel in order to make it a little more maintainable in future... I have plenty of experience building API'...

I recently read Okasaki and Brodal's paper "Optimal Purely Functional Priority Queues," which describes a fast priority queue based on data-structural bootstrapping, in which a simple and inefficient ...

It seems that the stock bootstrapping process is a bit lacking on Windows.
Linux has cloud-init which will install packages, store files, and run a bash script from user data.
Windows has ec2config ...